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Minor earthquake, 3.01 mag strikes near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

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Earthquake location 17.9496S, -66.6665WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude -66.6665 West, latitude 17.9496 North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/05/20 / 2020-05-03 08:38:28 / May 3, 2020 @ 8:38 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2020124014. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020124014. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 04:38:28 / 4:38 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Rincón, Guaynabo. Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and five, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km SE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.01 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6665° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9496° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-03 08:38:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-06 14:29:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 139 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.111 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 186 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020124014 Id of event.
Event Code 2020124014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020124014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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